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...sample-to-store-shelf cycle doesn't cut it in this industry. Tokyo girls, instead of company stylists, helm this multibillion-dollar market. "Once we put the shoe on the shelf, our customers and staff make suggestions and modifications to it," says Mutsumi Tanabe, the thirtysomething managing director of Kobe Leather Cloth Ltd., which owns Esperanza, the most popular shoe store inside 109. "So we remake the shoes, and keep on changing the shoe to meet the desires of our staff and customers." A servile and laborious process, but one that opened wallets across Japan: Esperanza's sales reached...
...that in the U.S. Yet, ever since the sarin-gas subway attacks at the hands of a religious cult in 1995 left 12 people dead and thousands injured, Japan has become increasingly aware that something is wrong with its well-ordered society. In 1997 a 14-year-old Kobe teenager killed and beheaded an 11-year-old playmate. A year later, four people died after eating arsenic-laced curry at a village festival. In December 1999, a teenage assailant knifed and killed a seven-year-old boy on a school playground. Last August a 15-year-old newspaper-delivery...
...since the subway sarin-gas attacks at the hands of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult in 1995 left 12 people dead and thousands injured, the Japanese have had to face the realization that something was becoming terribly unhinged in their well-ordered society. In 1997 a 14-year-old Kobe teenager killed and beheaded an 11-year-old playmate. A year later four people died after eating arsenic-laced curry at a village festival. In December 1999 a teenage assailant knifed to death a 7-year-old boy on a school playground. Last August a 15-year-old newspaper delivery...
...Sixers will take on the Lakers in this year’s championship. The Lakers will go ahead 2-0 in the series, at which point Shaquille O’Neal will claim that Kobe Bryant not only is his “idol,” but also his biological son (though Shaq will not remember whether it was Cindy, Venus or Aaliyah who mothered Bryant...
...seasons thus far. Mario Lemieux and Ray Bourque are still in the hunt for a Stanley Cup. In the NBA, both Eastern Conference semis were decided by a seventh game yesterday. The Lakers have dominated their competition in every game, spearheaded by excellent performances by Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant...